Fournier Hippolyte, Koenig Olivier
Laboratoire EMC.
Emotion. 2023 Mar;23(2):425-436. doi: 10.1037/emo0001081. Epub 2022 Mar 21.
Recent work on emotional attention suggests that attention is prioritized toward stimuli that are intrinsically relevant and toward events that are conducive to momentaneous important goals. The appraisal of intrinsic relevance and goal relevance is aimed to alert individuals to the presence of events that may require action that could affect their well-being and is part of the process that leads to an emotional episode. However, to our knowledge, no empirical data has yet highlighted how precisely intrinsic and goal relevances combine with each other to trigger attentional biases. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that intrinsic and goal relevances have multiplicative effects on attention and trigger action tendency. To this end, participants appraised the level of intrinsic relevance, goal relevance and action tendency associated with 4 stimuli (2 related to hunger and 2 to thirst), before performing a dot-probe task in which these stimuli were in competition. We observed that intrinsic and goal relevances appraisals had indeed multiplicative effects on attention. In addition, the action tendency reported by participants was best predicted when intrinsic and goal relevances were considered together. These results show the importance of considering both intrinsic and goal relevances in research on emotion and attention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
近期关于情绪注意力的研究表明，注意力会优先指向本质上相关的刺激以及有助于实现当下重要目标的事件。对本质相关性和目标相关性的评估旨在提醒个体注意那些可能需要采取行动、进而可能影响其幸福感的事件的存在，这是导致情绪发作过程的一部分。然而，据我们所知，尚无实证数据突出显示本质相关性和目标相关性究竟如何相互结合以引发注意力偏差。本研究的目的是检验这样一个假设，即本质相关性和目标相关性对注意力具有相乘效应并引发行动倾向。为此，在执行一项点探测任务（这些刺激在该任务中相互竞争）之前，参与者对与4种刺激（2种与饥饿相关，2种与口渴相关）相关的本质相关性、目标相关性和行动倾向水平进行了评估。我们观察到，本质相关性评估和目标相关性评估确实对注意力具有相乘效应。此外，当同时考虑本质相关性和目标相关性时，对参与者报告的行动倾向的预测效果最佳。这些结果表明，在情绪与注意力的研究中，同时考虑本质相关性和目标相关性非常重要。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》（c）2023美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
